I love it here. Today I got to build a bar top for the cafe at the International Church. We have two projects running concurrently with the finishing of the cafe being one, and the excavation in the storage room for a new foundation being the other. One of the workers, a man named Mustafa, was at church yesterday. Hopefully he and I will be able to connect over the course of the week. Working with the people here, one can not help but develop friendships. I hope that Mustafa will be encouraged by what he sees in the people who are volunteering at the church so that he will investigate Christianity further.
Working overseas will make any carpenter from the States pine over the tools he left back home. I spent the day getting acquainted with the church’s Metabo circular saw. It is like a Makita or Bosch only far more cumbersome and clumsy. The bar should be completed after another eight hours of work. I am happy to be here to take some of the burden from Cleon and Robin. Missionaries have a way of becoming so overburdened by tasks that they lack the time to spend with their family, or to connect with the local people.
Robin’s wife Bonny came by with their daughter for lunch. They are a sweet family and have come to serve from England. In just a little over a week we have gone from not being particularly sure what each-other’s names are to having the foundation of friendship. God is so good.
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